Leadership and teams · Short · 5 April 2026
What is a leader’s role?
Too much control kills teams. The leader’s role is to give autonomy and develop people, not to check every step.
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Your actions for this week
- Choose a task you currently check in detail and stop doing so this week.
- Agree on the expected outcome and a single checkpoint.
- Ask someone on your team what they’d like to learn this quarter.
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